tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1256057880152269119..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Curzio Malaparte: Dis, the Infernal CityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27508767822401662172010-10-15T06:48:33.794-07:002010-10-15T06:48:33.794-07:00Steve, Curtis,
Yes, let's hope the devils sta...Steve, Curtis,<br /><br />Yes, let's hope the devils stay in the box yet awhile... but there's always the troubling memory of <br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/pandaemonium.html" rel="nofollow">Pandaemonium</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-91111932250094653632010-10-14T14:50:17.076-07:002010-10-14T14:50:17.076-07:00Hi Tom. Welcome back. The visual images you'...Hi Tom. Welcome back. The visual images you've added to Malaparte's already overwhelming sensory account of Hamburg are (as these things so often tend to be) beautiful/horrible. They made everything realer and when I consulted history books to confirm that this all was real and discovered that it was, I began to feel sick/stupid even being alive when things like this are possible and are probably being repeated somewhere right now or will be very soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-69974687036849946962010-10-14T07:43:09.645-07:002010-10-14T07:43:09.645-07:00Tom,
Yes, good to see you back -- this is totally...Tom,<br /><br />Yes, good to see you back -- this is totally intense, those "children with serene eyes," Charon taking us across to forgetfulness. . . . .<br /><br /><br />10.14<br /><br />light coming into sky above still black<br />ridge, golden-crowned sparrow’s oh dear <br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> lower right inscribe in pen,<br /> place of same subject<br /><br /> such that what is could “be”<br /> what is, outside, “see”<br /><br />silver of sunlight reflected in channel,<br />shadowed green slope of ridge across itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39281677223485321202010-10-14T06:28:24.603-07:002010-10-14T06:28:24.603-07:00Thanks, Doowman. A little WD-40. (It's rude-me...Thanks, Doowman. A little WD-40. (It's rude-mechanical week around here.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38429585172617129502010-10-14T06:20:55.928-07:002010-10-14T06:20:55.928-07:00Just glad to see you back, Tom. How'd you get...Just glad to see you back, Tom. How'd you get that clip to work?doowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10928038429390649705noreply@blogger.com